You don’t realize that your labia will be waxed when you get a Brazilian. Of course you understand that this is the inevitable. That your entire vagina will be naked, except for that little landing strip left of pubic hair. But as a Brazilian virgin, I couldn’t possibly imagine what the experience is like until [...]
February 18, 2013
And now, after years of being my beauty-break, the thing I didn’t have to make better, the protein matter that I dyed iridescent shades of eggplant for fun, chopped into sassy bobs, twisted into lame dreadlocks; chunks of hair wadded together with lanolin, has, over time, like every other genetic luck of the draw, changed. In a [...]
October 12, 2012
Gotta do this, you know I do. We celebrated International Girls Day and those faces, those faces of gorgeous children were enough to make me wonder–why we can not figure out how to cherish all children? Let’s give them equally imperfect, but loving places to grow from. Let’s give them a shot at enjoying this big [...]
September 11, 2012
At a bat mitzvah this weekend, a woman wore a very short sequined mini-skirt, a white wife beater and 4-inch heels. This woman had a rockin’ body. Not one ounce of flab. This woman was my age. I wore a mini as well that night. It wasn’t as mini as her mini. Hers was triple [...]
July 11, 2012
Remember Kate Upton? We discussed her Sports Illustrated cover here. On one of the pro-ana (pro-anorexic support group sites), here, Kate Upton has been targeted as fat. She’s the nineteen-year-old bombshell. She’s also fat. Here’s what that website had to say: Now, there’s nothing wrong with an average girl like Kate being confident. She’s pretty, [...]
June 15, 2012
Just when I thought I had no hope in the fight against aging (read: I don’t, but let’s pretend I do), Ari Seth Cohen dedicated a website to the most fabulous creatures on our planet: women in their 60s and beyond. The New York Times writes about his ultra-fabulous blog, Advanced Style, today. Writes Cathy [...]
May 21, 2012
I didn’t forget. I just didn’t go back. I went twice. Once for the initial shock and the following week for the glory of lost pounds. Then I got busy writing, walking my dog, doing the laundry and micromanaging the lives of my children. I’m busy, busy, busy. Oh, and then I work a little [...]
May 9, 2012
The afternoon before the prom there was a flutter of activity. I sensed the excitement from my office, knowing the prom was the source, I dug harder into my work. I would not be corrupted. Right about then, my daughter burst in, she’d accompanied an older girlfriend to a tanning salon! A tanning salon?!? [...]
May 8, 2012
Just as Vogue announced a ban of under-aged and thinspo-leaning models from its pages–a “triumph” according to Slate’s Libby Copeland–Seventeen magazine shut down 14-year-old Julia Bluhm, a ballet dancer who attempted to convince Seventeen magazine to hire “real” models instead of using photoshopped girls. Bluhm, who supplied Seventeen editor Ann Shoket with 25,000 signatures, was [...]
April 10, 2012
With so much of the titillating 50 Shades of Grey talk around (all three of my sister-in-laws are reading the books and we discussed it in detail on Passover while the children furiously jumped in unison on the bed next to us), I couldn’t help but think of some of the other kinky possibilities that [...]
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